ECE Professor Robert J. Butera has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) for a two-year term, which began on January 1, 2018 and will end on December 31, 2019.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan has received an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for his research project entitled “Wearable Assessment of Warfighter Blood Volume Status using Graph Mining Algorithms.”

ECE research faculty member Fariborz Farahmand received the Best Paper Award in the Big Data, Image Processing, and Multimedia Technology Track at the 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communications Conference.

Thanks to an award from the Georgia Tech Student Foundation (GTFS), a new group of students from the Haiti Solar Team are planning a return this May to implement more solar-powered systems with a plan for sustainability.

According to a recent satisfaction survey among Georgia Tech faculty members, participants listed quality of colleagues and quality of undergraduate students as the two best aspects of working at the university.